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‘Nowhere to hide’: Chinese scientists develop game-changing military surveillance device for electronic warfare

  • Scientists say they have achieved seamless, wide bandwidth, real-time monitoring and analysis of the electromagnetic spectrum
  • It covers a massive frequency range which picks up everything from amateur radio broadcasts to Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites

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A huge breakthrough in electromagnetic surveillance means an enemy will have nowhere to hide from the Chinese military. Photo: Xinhua
Stephen Chenin Beijing
An enemy in the battlefield will have “nowhere to hide” after Chinese scientists claim to have made a huge technological breakthrough in the field of electronic warfare.
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The team of scientists from Beijing said for the first time they have achieved seamless, wide bandwidth, real-time monitoring and analysis of the electromagnetic spectrum, leaving any enemy completely out in the open during a conflict.

The Chinese military will be able to use this technology to detect and lock on to enemy signals at unprecedented speeds, decode the physical parameters of these signals almost instantly, and effectively suppress them – all while ensuring the smooth flow of their own communications, according to the researchers.

Details of the game-changing technology were published by project lead scientist Yang Kai, a professor from the school of information and electronics at the Beijing Institute of Technology, and his team in a peer-reviewed paper in the Chinese academic journal Radio Communications Technology on January 17.

In the paper, Yang wrote that the new breed of electromagnetic spectrum monitoring gear is “small in size, high in performance and low in power consumption”.

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Due to the enormous amount of data to be processed in the heat of combat, this technology was previously considered a pipe dream.

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